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Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
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10 Favorite Full Length Releases
Artist: Great Northern
Album: Trading Twilight For Daylight
Label: Eenie Meenie Records
MP3: Home
[audio:http://www.eeniemeenie.com/Home.mp3]
Buy: Amazon
Artist: The Parson Red Heads
Album: King Giraffe
Label: Yukon Records
MP3: Days Of My Youth
[audio:tprh_daysofmyyouth.mp3]
Buy: Amazon
Artist: The Moon Upstairs
Album: Guarding The Golden Apple
Label: Gifted Children
MP3: All Is All
[audio:tmu_allisall.mp3]
Buy: iTunes
Artist: Ferraby Lionheart
Catch The Brass Ring
Label: Network
MP3: Vermont Avenue
[audio:ferraby_vermontavenue.mp3]
Buy: Amazon
Artist: Biirdie
Album: Catherine Avenue (out digitally 10/30/07, out physically 01/22/08)
Label: Love Minus Zero
MP3: Him
[audio:http://teamclermont.com/mp3/biirdie_him.mp3]
Buy: Amazon
Artist: Division Day
Album: Beartrap Island
Label: Eenie Meenie Records
MP3: Tigers
[audio:http://www.eeniemeenie.com/Tigers.mp3]
Buy: Amazon
Artist: Big Business
Album: Here Come The Waterworks
Label: Hydra Head
MP3: Grounds For Divorce
[audio:BIGBUSINESS_GroundsForDivorce.mp3]
Buy: Amazon
Artist: Sea Wolf
Album: Leaves In The River
Label: Dangerbird Records
MP3: You’re A Wolf
[audio:http://www.aolcdn.com/_media/ch_music/sea_wolf_youre_a_wolf.mp3]
Buy: Amazon
Artist: Tigers Can Bite You
Album: Tigers Can Bite You
Label: Self-Released
MP3: Hawks
[audio:tcby_hawks.mp3]
Buy: iTunes
Artist: Coco B’s
Album: Coco B’s
Label: Self-Released
MP3: Modern Lover
[audio:http://www.kdouble.com/sounds/cocobsmodernlover.mp3]
Buy: iTunes
5 Favorite Ep, 7″, or 12″ Releases
Artist: Tweak Bird
Album: BigBoneSnakeBite 7″
Label: Self-Released
MP3: White Lips
[audio:tweakbird_whitelips.mp3]
Buy: At a show or on the band’s MySpace
Artist: Crystal Antlers
Album: Until The Sun Dies 7″
Label: Self-Released
MP3: Vexation (not on this particular 7″ because I don’t it ripped yet)
[audio:ca_vexation.mp3]
Buy: Greater Los Angeles
Artist: Darker My Love
Album: Darker My Love-Moccasin split 12″
Label: I Hate Rock N Roll
MP3: Hair Decisions (clip)
[audio:http://www.ihaterocknroll.com/hairdecisionsSAMPLE.mp3]
Buy: At a show or directly from I Hate Rock N Roll
Artist: Devon Williams
Album: A Truce/Elevator 7″
Label: LA Record
MP3: Elevator
[audio:devonwilliams_elevator.mp3]
Buy: Greater Los Angeles
Artist: Francisco The Man!
Album: Francisco The Man! EP
Label: Self-Released
MP3: Lord Knows I’m Weak
[audio:FTM-Lord_Knows_Im_Weak.mp3]
Buy: iTunes
IfAN: So now that you have wrapped up your whirlwind November of triple residencies and have given away your new album Stunts, have you had anytime to sit back and reflect on it all…what worked, what didn’t?
Malcolm: I don’t quite know how to answer that one yet, but if the question was more along the lines of, “Would you do it all over again?”, than the answer would be yes. I think we could and would do it for every record release we do. It was everything we could hope for: we played a bunch of shows and saw over a hundred of our friends’ bands share the stage with us over the course of the month and we got to have a lot of control over who we played with — so it was like booking our own rock club with bands from all over the state. Read more »
No People, Belly Button, and a dude from The Mapes. Originally uploaded by The Mapes
There is something inherently fun about Japanese punk rock bands, their excitement and general enthusiasm when touring the States is utterly contagious, and if you are in the crowd and can’t have fun at one of their shows, there is something wrong with you.
Tomorrow two Japanese punk rock bands, No People and Belly Button, finish up their US tour in San Pedro at La Conga. Presented by The Rise and Fall and Slack Mafia, the show is rounded out by San Pedro locals, Killer Dreamer (who I think hate me), Drinkers Purgatory from Anaheim, and Autistic Youth who are on tour from Portland.
Download No People’s “Papercut Girl” (mp3) from their ep, Boys On The Edge
[audio:http://www.undergroundgovernment.com/UG_musics/No%20People%20-%20Papercut%20Girl.mp3]
and Belly Button’s “School Girl” (mp3) from their self-titled ep.
[audio:http://www.undergroundgovernment.com/UG_musics/Belly%20Button%20-%20School%20Girl.mp3]
Saturday, Dec 15th @ La Conga – 465 W 7th St . Los Angeles, CA 90731 – 18+ / $5
I’ve never been a big fan of lists (hold it…I just had some deja vu), but this year due to the fact that I have started to contribute to the OC Weekly’s (a Village Voice publication) Heard Mentality blog, I was offered a opportunity to vote in the 2007 Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll (I’m not special, something like 1500 people are asked to vote in it), I decided “hey why not” and submitted my 10 favorite albums of the year. Picking 10 was pretty hard. I used the deciding factor of whether I had purchased an album on vinyl as a tie breaker so that I could pair my list down to 10, thus cutting Apostle Of Hustle – Nation Anthem Of Nowhere, Baroness – The Red Album, and Blonde Redhead – 23, even though I really liked all three of these releases as well.
Artist: Dungen
Album: Tio Bitar
Label: Kemado
MP3: Gör Det Nu
[audio:Gor_Det_Nu.mp3]
Buy: Insound | Amazon
Artist: Earthless
Album: Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky
Label: Tee Pee Records
MP3: Godspeed (edit)
[audio:http://www.teepeerecords.com/bands/earthless/audio/Earthless.mp3]
Buy: Insound | Amazon
Artist: LCD Soundsystem
Album: Sound Of Silver
Label: DFA Records
MP3: All My Friends
[audio:http://]
Buy: Insound | Amazon
Artist: Amy Winehouse
Album: Back To Black
Label: Republic
MP3: You Know I’m No Good
[audio:http://boss.streamos.com/download/labels/universalrepublic/amywinehouse/audio/youknowimnogood.mp3]
Buy: Insound | Amazon
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Album: Magic
Label: Sony
MP3: Radio Nowhere
[audio:http://download.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio/Music/Audio/2007/08/28/RadioNowhere.mp3]
Buy: Insound | Amazon
Artist: Against Me!
Album: New Wave
Label: Sire
MP3: New Wave (clip)
[audio:http://media.startribune.com/smedia/2007/11/23/08/NewWave.source.prod_affiliate.2.mp3]
Buy: Amazon
Artist: Emily Jane White
Album: Dark Undercoat
Label: Double Negative Records
MP3: Dagger
[audio:http://terrorbird.alphapupserver.com/music/EJW-04_Dagger.mp3]
Buy: iTunes
Artist: Pieta Brown
Album: Remember The Sun
Label: One Little Indian Records
MP3: In My Mind I Was Talking To Loretta
[audio:http://www.onelittleindian-us.com/freemp3/pieta_in_my_mind.mp3]
Buy: Amazon
Artist: Minus The Bear
Album: Planet Of Ice
Label: Suicide Squeeze
MP3: Throwin’s Shapes
[audio:http://www.suicidesqueeze.net/mp3/mtb_throwin_shapes.mp3]
Buy: Insound | Amazon
Artist: Queens Of The Stone Age
Album: Era Vulgaris
Label: Interscope
MP3: Sick, Sick, Sick
[audio:http://themusicmiz.com/02%20Sick%20Sick%20Sick.mp3]
Buy: Insound | Amazon